Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 4 authors, 2017-11-25

[PATCH v3] crypto: AF_ALG - remove locking in async callback

From: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu)
Date: 2017-11-24 07:37:39
Also in: linux-crypto

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Stephan M?ller wrote:
The code paths protected by the socket-lock do not use or modify the
socket in a non-atomic fashion. The actions pertaining the socket do not
even need to be handled as an atomic operation. Thus, the socket-lock
can be safely ignored.

This fixes a bug regarding scheduling in atomic as the callback function
may be invoked in interrupt context.

In addition, the sock_hold is moved before the AIO encrypt/decrypt
operation to ensure that the socket is always present. This avoids a
tiny race window where the socket is unprotected and yet used by the AIO
operation.

Finally, the release of resources for a crypto operation is moved into a
common function of af_alg_free_resources.

Fixes: e870456d8e7c8 ("crypto: algif_skcipher - overhaul memory management")
Fixes: d887c52d6ae43 ("crypto: algif_aead - overhaul memory management")
Reported-by: Romain Izard <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Mueller <redacted>
Patch applied.  Thanks.
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